Brain's Organization Switches as Children Become Adults

A new study has found that a child's brain is organized differently than an adults brain; however, the child's brain functions as capably as an adult brain. Steven E. Petersen, Ph.D., the James McDonnell Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is studying normal brain development to further understand how developmental disorders and brain injury can affect mental capabilities. Petersen use resting-state MRI to scan the spontaneous activity that occurs in the brain. Petersen found that a child's brain's tightest connections are ones that are physically closest together as opposed to adults whose are distant from each other.

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